Detailed accounts by former Israeli soldiers describe how they fired their weapons out of “boredom,” designated any Palestinians in sight as a threat, and routinely burned homes down. By JULIA CONLEY Jul 08, 2024 Disputing the repeated claims of Israeli officials and their vehement supporters in the Biden administration, who have scoffed at concerns that the Israel Defense […]
PUCL said that the conviction of Medha Patkar for defamation is a timely reminder of the serious danger that the criminal law on defamation poses for human rights activists, environmental activists, anti-corruption activists and whistleblowers. Groundxero | July 05, 2024 A Delhi Court has convicted Medha Patkar, one of India’s most renowned social activists, […]
The former Labour leader issued a warning to the incoming government of Keir Starmer: “Dissent cannot be crushed without consequences.” By Jake Johnson July 05, 2024 Former U.K. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn won reelection as an Independent on Thursday against a candidate from his erstwhile party as Labour—despite its unpopularity under incoming Prime Minister Keir […]
PUCL urges union government to amend the new criminal law for clarification on duration of police custody beyond 15 days. PUCL said that “Any extension of police custody beyond 15 days is a serious incursion in the rule of law and the criminal justice system.” Groundxero | July 05, 2024 After the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha […]
The Court has exposed itself as a nakedly political—and reactionary—institution, and the existential dangers it poses must be met by mass mobilization and fierce resistance. By VINCE WARREN Jul 03, 2024 “The president is not above the law,” wrote Chief Justice John Roberts before ruling that President Trump is above the law. In […]
Visually challenged people have to rely on others or an expensive smartphone device to be able to tell which currency note they’re holding. By Shyamoli Jana 5 July, 2024 Demonetisation not only killed people, but has also made the lives of blind people harder with the introduction of new currency notes making banknotes […]
After 14 years of persecution, Julian Assange will go free. We must honor the hundreds of thousands of people across the globe who made this happen. By CHRIS HEDGES Jun 26 The dark machinery of empire, whose mendacity and savagery Julian Assange exposed to the world, spent 14 years trying to destroy him. […]
“Make no mistake, the vital work of national security journalists will be more difficult today than it was yesterday.” By JESSICA CORBETT Jun 25, 2024 Amid celebrations that a plea deal with the United States resulted in the release of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from a British prison, press freedom advocates on Tuesday continued to raise […]
The deaths of Jaliluddin and Sameeruddin underscore the issue of fake encounters orchestrated by the forest department across protected areas in India. Such actions not only violate human rights but also undermine trust in conservation efforts, perpetuating a cycle of fear and resistance among local communities. Public Statement on Killings and Fake Encounters by […]
Increased institutions’ fees coupled with diminishing Government investment in Higher Education are further alienating and marginalizing poorer students. Federalism at large is under tremendous onslaught in recent times. The powers and purview of State Governments are getting trampled upon from the Centre and the NAAC process is only another such weapon (along with weapons like […]
এবারের লোকসভা ভোটে উত্তরবঙ্গে বিজেপির ভোট সর্বত্র কমেছে, তবে তৃণমূল উত্তরের মাটিকে জিতে নিতে আবারও ব্যর্থ হল। তৃণমূল পাহাড়বাসীর কাছেও সমতলের দল হয়ে রয়েছে। যা তৃণমূলের ভাববার প্রয়োজন। লিখলেন রুপম দেব। এবারের লোকসভা ভোটে উত্তরবঙ্গে বিজেপির ভোট সর্বত্র কমেছে, তবে তৃণমূল উত্তরের মাটিকে জিতে নিতে আবারও ব্যর্থ হল। কোটি কোটি টাকা খরচ করে […]
নীলাঞ্জন দত্ত ১৪ জুন, ২০২৪ “Anyway defeat has to be accepted. There should be no attempt to explain it away. However, the whole campaign should be closely analysed so that the pitfalls may be avoided in future” — Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya, Organiser Weekly, Political Diary, June 3, 1963 ভোটের ফল আশানুরূপ না হলে […]
…ক্ষিদে, রোজগার, বাঁচার অধিকারের দাবীকে দিকভ্রান্ত করা যায় না মোষ, মঙ্গলসূত্র হারানোর ভয় দেখিয়ে, নিরন্তর ঘৃণার বিষ ছড়িয়ে আর আতঙ্কের বাতাবরণ তৈরি করে। তাই বহু মানুষ প্রত্যাখ্যান করেছেন বিদ্বেষের সংস্কৃতি। লিখলেন শুভজিৎ সিংহ। সদ্য সমাপ্ত লোকসভা নির্বাচনের শেষ দু’মাস প্রধানমন্ত্রী নরেন্দ্র দামোদরদাস মোদীর সভাগুলোর রাজনৈতিক ভাষণে অহিন্দুদের প্রতি ক্রমাগত ঘৃণা বর্ষিত হয়েছিল। দেশের […]
“It’s a nightmare at Al-Aqsa,” said Samuel Johann, MSF coordinator in Gaza. “How many more men, women, and children have to be killed before world leaders decide to put an end to this massacre?” By JESSICA CORBETT Jun 08, 2024 Palestinian officials said at least 210 people were killed and more than 400 injured […]
“This is not war, it is destruction that words are unable to express,” said the father of two children killed in the Israeli strike. JAKE JOHNSON Jun 06, 2024 Israeli forces on Thursday bombed a Gaza school run by the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, killing dozens of people including women and children. […]
“It took a genocide that killed 15,000 children and maimed and scarred thousands more but the U.N. has finally and rightly added Israel to its List of Shame,” said one Palestinian observer. By Brett Wilkins June 07, 2024 United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres informed Israel on Friday that, for the first time, it is being added […]
বিশ্বের পরিবেশ সঙ্কট আসলে অতি গভীর। পৃথিবীর গভীর অসুখ এখন। ধুমধাম করে কয়েক হাজার বৃক্ষরোপণের টোটকা দিয়ে তার প্রতিকার অসম্ভব। এই সঙ্কট থেকে বেরোতে হলে বিনাশ ঘটাতে হবে বর্তমান পুঁজিবাদী ব্যবস্থার। বেদনাদায়ক হল, মানুষের মধ্যে সেই ধরনের সচেতনতা খুবই স্বল্প, অকিঞ্চিৎকর। তাই মানবজগত আজ বিলুপ্তির মুখে দাঁড়িয়ে পড়েছে কি না এই প্রশ্ন ওঠা অসঙ্গত নয়। […]
President Biden remains culpable for deaths in Gaza, whether the human toll is now 35,000 or 200,000. Joshua Frank May 31, 2024 As Amal Nassar lay in pain on a bed at the Al-Awda Hospital in the Nuseirat refugee camp in northern Gaza, the echoes of explosions and artillery fire could be heard all […]
Perhaps, nowhere in the country during the last two months of electioneering did any people’s gathering has manifested mass democratic consciousness and determination to transform the current repressive socio-economic order in such clear political terms. By Harsh Thakor On 26 May, over 20,000 people of Punjab converged at the Barnala grain market for […]
A report by Anish Ankur on the last phase of the general election 2024 in Bihar. The seventh and the last phase of voting will be held on Saturday (June 1) for 57 seats in eight States and Union territories. Voting is already over in 486 seats in 28 States and Union territories. The […]
“There is no mistake, just total disregard for humanity, decency, international law,” said human rights experts at the United Nations of Israel’s bombing of an encampment. By Julia Conley May 30, 2024 A coalition of United Nations experts on Wednesday vehemently rejected Israel’s claim that its bombing of a tent encampment in a supposed “humanitarian […]
সব্যসাচী, সৌমি (দিলখুশ) অজানা জায়গায় অচেনা মানুষের সাথে সাংস্কৃতিক মেলবন্ধন আগেও ঘটেছে। তবু অনেক কিছু জানার ছিল। ইচ্ছে ছিল বুঝবার। আমরা দু’জন নিজেদের কতটা স্ট্রেচ করতে পারি । ইচ্ছে ছিল পুরোটা বোঝার, কিভাবে পুরো ব্যবস্থাটা রান করে। এত মানুষের মাঝে মানুষের খেলা, বিনিময়… কথা, ভাব, সময়, খাবার। ভারতবর্ষকে ভেতর থেকে ভালোভাবে চেনার একমাত্র উপায় […]
“How many more charred corpses does he have to see before the president considers a change in policy?” a CBS News reporter asked a White House official following the massacre. By Edward Carver Israel used U.S.-made bombs in its attack on a camp of displaced Palestinians outside Rafah that killed dozens on Sunday night, according to analyses […]
Pro-Israel forces in the U.S. are trying their best to throw sand in the wheels of justice with threats of new sanctions against the International Criminal Court after it requested Israeli and Hamas arrest warrants. By Medea Benjamin Senator Lindsay Graham was bursting with contempt for the International Criminal Court when he grilled Secretary of […]
Ipsa Shatakshi is the wife of Rupesh Kumar Singh, an independent journalist based in Jharkhand who has been in jail since 17 July 2022, charged under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act for being a suspected Maoist. Rupesh Kumar has been working as a freelance journalist since 2014, reporting on state violence against Adivasi communities. […]
27th May 2024, New Delhi Highlighting the serious challenges facing livelihood issues due to the corporate policies being vigorously pursued in the last ten years by the BJP led NDA Government under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) has appealed to workers and farmers to ensure change in government as well […]
সাদত হাসান মান্টোর ১১২তম জন্মদিন চলে গেল এই মাসে। গত দু’বছর হল মান্টোর ‘খোল দো’ গল্প নিয়ে একক পারফর্মেন্স করে চলেছে কত্থক, সমসাময়িক নাচ ও থিয়েটার শিল্পী শ্রুতি ঘোষ। শ্রুতির সঙ্গে নাচ নিয়ে একাধিক কাজ করার সুবাদে ওর ‘খোল দো’-র সাথে সামান্য হলেও আমি জড়িয়ে থেকেছি। সেই ‘খোল দো’র শৈল্পিক, অর্থনৈতিক পথ চলা নিয়ে মান্টোর […]
নোটায় ভোট বেশি পড়লে নতুন করে ভোট নেওয়ার জন্য আইন করার দাবিও তোলা দরকার। যেমন দরকার একটা নির্দিষ্ট সময়ের মধ্যে নির্বাচিত প্রার্থী তার নির্বাচনী প্রতিশ্রুতি না রাখলে তাকে ফিরিয়ে আনার অধিকারের (রাইট টু রিকল) জন্য আন্দোলন করা। সেই রাস্তায় না গিয়ে ‘নোটায় কোনও ভোট নয়’ বলে আওয়াজ তুললে লাভ কার? লিখলেন নীলাঞ্জন দত্ত। এবারের […]
“What needs to be ordered is a permanent cease-fire and an end to the siege and occupation,” said a Palestinian forced to flee Gaza. By Jessica Corbett May 24, 2024 Civilians and journalists in the southern Gaza Strip reported Friday that Israel responded to an order by the International Court of Justice to halt military operations in Rafah by […]
“Israel must immediately halt its military offensive or any other action in the Rafah governorate which may inflict on the Palestinian group in Gaza conditions of life that could bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part,” said Judge Nawaf Salam, president of the ICJ. By Julia Conley May 24, 2024 […]
The political dynamics of Bihar is changing very fast. Initially when Nitish Kumar crossed over to NDA camp, one more time, in the last month of January, the poll pundits were making predictions of an easy win for BJP-led NDA and a repeat of the 2019 results when NDA got 39 out of 40 seats […]
How durable is the foundation of faith of an institution that was willing to abandon its creed on such flimsy grounds as a dispute with its employees and how strong morally are those who defend it today with ostentatious valour? Nilanjan Dutta May 22, 2024 Recent utterances by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata […]
The ruling by the High Court in London permitting Julian Assange to appeal his extradition order leaves him languishing in precarious health in a high-security prison. That is the point. By CHRIS HEDGES May 21, 2024 The decision by the High Court in London to grant Julian Assange the right to appeal […]
Karim Khan, chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court, accuses Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant of numerous crimes including “starvation as a method of war” and “deliberately targeting civilians.” Groundxero | May 20, 2024 The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on May 20 announced that he […]
A new report on global internet shutdowns puts India into number one offender position with a whopping 116 total internet shutdowns in the country during 2023. By Sumendra Tamang 2023 was the worst year of Internet shutdowns ever recorded— highlighting an alarming and dangerous trend for human rights. A new report, Shrinking Democracy, […]
Seema Azad – a human rights activist and President of the Uttar Pradesh (UP) chapter of People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), a poet, author and an independent journalist, was recently in Kolkata to attend the 6th Kolkata People’s Literary Festival. She is the editor of a monthly non-commercial magazine ‘Dastak Naye Samay Ki’. A […]
Organizers held rallies in the U.S., Europe, and Asia to mark Nakba Day and condemn Israel’s bombing and starvation of Palestinian civilians. By Julia Conley 19 May, 2024 As one United Nations official on Saturday said that “brand new words” are needed to adequately describe the devastation Israel has wrought across Gaza in its U.S.-backed military assault, tens of […]
All the five seats going to poll in fifth phase in Bihar had been won by NDA with a big margin in the 2019 election. But things are changing at the ground level. A report by Anish Ankur. Will Chirag Paswan be able to retain the Hajipur seat, considered to be a family bastion of […]
Modi’s latest statement referring to “those who have too many children” is the latest iteration of a long history of Hindu demographic fears – and has proven to be a lasting one. By Archana Venkatesh, Clemson University The world’s largest election is currently under way in India, with more than 960 million people […]
“Only tiny proportion of reality”: Over 9,600 children imprisoned in adult jails in 6 years reveals a RTI study. Groundxero | May 17, 2024 A recent right-to-information-based report, titled Incarceration of Children in Prisons in India, has found at least 9,681 children were wrongly incarcerated in adult prisons in between 1st January, 2016, to 31st […]